What, exactly, is the relationship among the various parties?
Who sold the rights / books to Ross? Under what terms? Or did a bulk
distributor who doesn't know anything about the WHO Code buy a bunch of
them and sell them to a company they had never heard of? Do I know who
Chapters sells my books to? I don't. Whether it is a big order an
individual buyer, I have no prior knowledge. How did it happen in this
case? At what point did it become known that these books would be
distributed by Ross?

I am not prepared to assume that LLLI knew about the decision to sell
the books to Ross when the book was being produced or the decision was
made to become associated with the project. I don't know about the AAP.
Others no doubt have more information.

As far as I am concerned, the breach of ethics was in the decision to
sell a bunch of the books to Ross, rather than in the production of the
book, unless the sale was planned. I am not prepared to blame others who
may have become unknowingly involved, although they will have to make a
decision now. Obviously, the decision of Ross to buy and distribute them
in order to look good was unethical, but my expectations of Ross's
ethics weren't high to start with.

Note that I have not been following the debate from the beginning.
However, I am ever so conscious of how easy it is to make assumptions,
and of the fact we can be right or wrong when we do. I am most often
wrong, I would say, which means you shouldn't take me very seriously
when I jump in the middle of a discussion soon after hearing it.

Jo-Anne Elder-Gomes, PhD. Women's Studies and translator-on-tour who is
suddenly not happy she was away from the computer so long...

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